New Family of Electron Microscopes Combines Ultra-High Resolution and Analytical Performance for the Widest Range of Materials HILLSBORO, Ore. - FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscope systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, announced today the availability of its new Nova(TM) NanoSEM 50 Series of ultra-high resolution scanning electron microscopes [...]

Former FEI Executive becomes Senior Vice President Sales of Nano Technology Systems division of Carl Zeiss PEABODY, Massachusetts, USA - Carl Zeiss today announced that Emile James (Jim) Pouquette, a former FEI Executive, has joined Carl Zeiss SMT North America as senior vice president sales. Pouquette, an honors graduate in Business Administration from California State [...]

Industry-Academia Joint Development: Trace Heavy Metal Measurement Device Incorporating Diamond Electrodes Horiba, Ltd., in collaboration with Professor Einaga at Keio University, has developed a portable measurement device incorporating diamond electrodes for trace heavy metal ions. This measurement equipment takes only about five minutes to measure elements such as cadmium and arsenic contained in industrial wastewater [...]

Smooth Operating even at high magnification observation Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TOKYO:8036) has developed the SU8040, a new type of Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) that features a newly developed Regulus (REGULated Ultra Stable) Stage. The SU8040 will be introduced on August 1. Now FE-SEM becomes an indispensable tool for semiconductor industry and cutting-edge nanotechnology [...]

A new, integrated gas injection system on the ORION® Plus Helium Ion Microscope delivers superior nanofabrication, deposition and etch. PEABODY, Massachusetts, USA - Carl Zeiss today introduced a new Gas Injection System for the ORION® Plus Helium Ion Microscope. The combination of a sub-nanometer (less than 0.35nm) probe of inert gas ions with a small [...]

Salt Lake City, Utah – Idaho Technology, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company acting through its DuPont Qualicon Business covering reagents or methods using SYBR® Green I technology and post-PCR melting curve analysis. This extends Idaho Technology’s ongoing program to license its broad and valuable intellectual [...]

Autoscribe Matrix Gemini 5.2 Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) software has recently been certified by SAP AG for integration with SAP PI 7.1 via their integration scenario NW-XI-CNT 3.0. Autoscribe have announced that their Matrix Gemini 5.2 Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) software has recently been certified by SAP AG for integration with SAP PI [...]

Uppsala, Sweden - Biotage (STO: BIOT), a leading supplier of tools and technology for medicinal and analytical chemistry, announced the launch of the Isolera ELSD-1080 evaporative light-scattering detector for flash purification. With the addition of the ELSD-1080, Biotage now provides a flash purification solution for nearly every compound type including semi-volatile UV transparent as well [...]

OvaDx® Commercialization Strategy Top Priority SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Arrayit Corporation (OTCBB: ARYC), a leader in life sciences and healthcare technology, announces today that the company has hired an industry expert to identify strategic partnerships for the commercialization of OvaDx®, the company’s pre-symptomatic test for ovarian cancer. Arrayit Corporation and its subsidiary Arrayit Diagnostics, Inc. have [...]

Thermo Scientific Nunc Edge Plates Eliminate Well-to-well Variability MILFORD, Mass. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Thermo Scientific Nunc Edge 96-well Plates for cell-based assays. The new Nunc™ Edge plates incorporate large perimeter evaporative buffer zones that eliminate well-to-well variability, while dramatically reducing the overall plate evaporation [...]